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Autumn leaves gild the moss festooned granite boulders and bedrock at the River Aune, in Dartmoor National Park.

The name Aune is derived from Old Norse word au{dh}n – meaning ‘wasteland’, or a ‘desolate place’ – which fits the description of the source of this river – in a bleak and boggy mire to the west of Ryder’s Hill, high on the southern side of the moors, rather well.